ZAKLADY METALOWE NO 3 WROCLAW; LOCATION/PRODUCTION, SECURITY, PERSONNEL, PANSTWOWE ZAKLADY LOTNICZE.

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500170104-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 1, 2000
• Sequence Number: 104
• Publication Date: August 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
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COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT "aklady Metalowe No 3 1 ?claw: Location/Production,
Security, Per.onnel,Panstwowe Zaklady Lotnicze.
PLACE ACOUI
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DATE ACQUIR
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Zaklady Metalowe Nc 3.
a defence plant in Psie Pole, Wroclaw.
2. "For purposes of camcuflege the name of this plant gets changed from time to time:
-In 191+9 it was called Fabryka :.ilnikow Lotniczych 'Fasil'.
-From 1950 to autumn 1951, Panstwowe Zaklady Lotnicze.
-From autumn 1951 to January 1953, Wytwornia ;:.pretu Kt mUnick-cyire.;c No
-%--Since January 1953'Cas of Ilay 1953j, Gaklady l'letalowe No. 3.
3. "It was known in the plant that there were altogether five such lonts In Poland.
No 1 is situated at Okecie in Warsaw. No 4 is at Bzec:^.ow.
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"The plant building in Psie role is E-shaped and pretty old. It is said to have
been a former German munitions factory, operated with slave labour. This i!i
apparently true ae the walls are still covered with inscri.ptions.written by the
slave workers in all sorts of languages. There are still barracks on the plant
grounds. They are not used now and are being torn down one by one.
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7. "I know for certain that it produces YAK motors and artillery ;ells
25X1X two parts of a shell of 40 mm diameter.. I believe that
the plant also maces chronometers, anemometers, petrol gauges for planes and SHL
motors for motorcycles.
25X1X 8. "Almost the entire management and technical staff of the plant is Soviet: colonels,
majors, captains, airmen, etc. Only a few are Polish and these are of low rank:
only one is a major; the rest are young subalterns.
9. "The entrance of the plant is guarded by industrial guards (Straz Promyslowa).
-The towers on the walls are manned by the K3W. Every worker has two passes: one
for the main entrance and another for his own department. The workers may not
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trustees who may circulate from one department to another. There is .a special
anti-sabotage bureau, the referat wojskowy. As
copper is a'metal in short supply, the screws were carefully counted. In order not
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5. "The grounds are surrounded with a wall which has barbed wire on top and watch
towers every 50-60 metres. The towers have machine guns and searchlights which
rotate by night. The front of the plant faces the 0lechn1ca highway-, and is close
to the loc ? railway station. To get to the plant from town one takes the bus
from Bij-Zelenski to Bierutownka. A special railway siding leads to it from the
station. The plant production is loaded into cars on this siding by night. It
is pacLad in large boxes inscribed with the words: 'Careful! Glass!' Diesel
engines which make very little noise are used to move the freight cars.
6. "The plant has 3000 workers, of whom 2000 are civilians, the rest soldiers.
10. "About every tenth worker is searched on leaving the plant. Each worker when he
is hired must sign an obligation that for five years after leaving he will keep
absolute silence on everything he has seen or heard at the plant. The obligation
also states that shoald he break this promise, he will to tried by a military
tribunal for the disclosure of military secrets. Most of the workers at the plant
25X1X are young people, because the authorities apparently hope that they will be more
loyal than the old workers. They are not given any political instruction worth
25X1X mentioning,but discipline is purely military. in
1951 the wages )rare quite goody up to 900-z1. monthly. In January 1952
Soviet norms were introduced. Nobody could earn more than 600 zl. any longer;
25X1X 40o zi.
the coast. The other young workers, about ' 7%% Of the total work force,
25X1 X got the same idea but were not pert. Ltted 'to leave.
Panstwowa Fabryka Wagonow
PAFAWAG produced not only railroad cars but also artillery probe=tiles and even
guns. 900 zl. per month there."
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ENCLOSURE (A): Layout sketch which the source prepared o!' 7a1t ady Metalowe NoJ
with legend
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partly of a communication equipment plant, now called Zaklady Metalowe No 3 in Wroclaw: Psie
Pole, in Poland.
(This plant was called since the autumn L951 "Wytwornia Sprzetu Komunikacyjnego" - communication
equipment plant - but in January 1953 certain parts of this plant were renamed into Zaklady
Metalowe No 3.(Metal plant No 3)
1. (St) production of main parts of
the "YAK" engines
2. OCT) technical control
3. (OKT) Final technical control
4. (W) Room for lending tools
5. (TM) Repairs under own management
6. (B) Offices (with the inscription:
Zaklady Metalowe Nr 3)
0. Main entrancs
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Orientation sketch
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1. (S,,) As on the ground floor'
2. (TT) Construction department,
3. Archives
4. (Ws) Tool lending room
5. (RW) Military "reterat" (section)
6. (B) Offices
7. Reading and recreation room
8. Unknown to the source
1. (M) Assembly ball of engines
2. (PA) Unknown
3. (TN) Tool making hall
4. (T) Room for special workers
to supply plans and tools
5. (W) Tool lending room
6. Offices
assigned!
1. t?Iot yet put into operation (in Janu-
ary l'53)
2. (FU, ) Production of sr.crking j:1::gs
3. (PN) Production of magactos
4. (PP) Precision 'corks
5. (KT) Technical control
6. (13) Offices
7. (Ohi) Final technical control
Note: Figures (1,2,...) are used only on this sketch, while letters (n g TM, in parenthe as)
are the same as were used in the pant, at least up to January 1953.
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